Former
test pilot and famous
Air racer. He was a test pilot on the
U-2 spy plane and the
SR-71 Blackbird. During the
1970s he purchased and modified a
Lockheed Starfighter (this particular example known as the "Red Baron"), using it to attain a
low-altitude speed record of 988.26mph, which he still holds.
He led a 1995 expedition to Greenland to recover the crashed kee bird B-29 bomber.